Help. Coil Gunking woes

[Gr8Scott]

Well, There is nothing nicer than the flavor of my NET a la Havana cigar leaf. But this coil gunking is getting ridiculous. I have filtered many times and many ways and still the juice just solidifies over the coil and give the nastiest bleccch dry hits I have ever had. Anybody have advice here? It's just what I made from cigar leaf mixed in with a little T/A at a 60/40 PG/VG mix.

 

[FACE MEAT]

I've got the same issues. I chalk it up to the price one pays for extracting tobacco and enjoying its deliciousness.

 

[chicoj]

my cigars liquids are also heavy, my base is 70/30, I think I found the solution to that for now, every time I put liquid to the atty I add a drop of water, so that the liquid is lighter .. since I did that I have no more problems with the atty

 

[Aaron1100us]

can you thin of with distilled H2O?

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[chicoj]

that I use

 

[pppooo7]

Hello every one,
Have the same problem here. I have made my extract with several techniques; Fusing, soaking in PG, in VG, in the mixture of the, Boiling, soaking in alcohol, not tried steam distillation but will do it soon.
with all of these techniques I have the gunky problem and since E-cigs are banned in my country I have to take care of my atomizers very carefully to not to kill them.
I have also tried filtering for three times with coffe filters but didnt help. I have tried cold filtering (like the one used for wine filtering) but not helped.
Any suggestion please?
Also, any one tried to extract flavor by distilling or steam distillation?
Thanks

 

[BuffaloBore]

Have you tried fermenting your extract to get rid of the sugar? It's worked well for my pipe extract, lots less gunk on the coils.

 

[LucentShadow]

I have not tried this, and it may not help if sugars are the problem, but I thought I'd throw the idea in here:

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/modding-forum/457711-diy-high-speed-centrifuge.html

My extractions were from Natural American Spirit, and I've had no luck filtering them adequately. Seems it would need several passes of increasingly fine filtration to make it acceptable for me. Perhaps a simple centrifuge may help.

Unfortunately, I'm just more curious than motivated to put one together.

 

[pppooo7]

fermenting like bear with yeast?
would you please describe what you have done in details?

 

[Knosis]

You're too picky. Mine have worked fine. Using standard coffee filters. No vacuum filter setup.

I'm making small amounts though. It sounds like you are trying to make quite a bit.

I lose about half my volume of water from being absorbed by the tobacco. I also grind it up first so its pretty fine.

If you use alcohol its going to dissolve the oil and fats out of the tobacco. This significantly increases buildup on the coil.

 

[metamorpheus]

I would imagine if you stuffed an oral syringe with a poly fill plug and poured your mix carefully through the top for the initial filtration, then used a micron filter on a leur lock syringe, you wouldn't have to worry about particles. If the mix is too dark then use distilled water. Also don't extract from dark cigars or cigars with flavoring on the tip. Anything else I'm not sure what you would do. I used VG on a light cigar and havent run into this problem.